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- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
surgical robotics to treat lung cancer, the intersection of medicine and technology was a deep interest of his prior to HBS. He is now the Founder and CEO of Alife Health, which uses machine learning to help assess the healthiest embryo... View Details
- 14 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture
Culture change is probably on your leadership agenda. You may want (or feel forced) to create a post-pandemic culture, or become more collaborative, innovative, or aggressive. But most companies fail in this because they try to change culture directly—through speeches,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Business & Environment
carbon credit programs and methodologies. She discusses the challenges in ensuring credit quality and how the boundary is evolving between voluntary and compliance markets. Amy also shares her insights into the latest trends in carbon markets and offers advice for... View Details
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
book Redefining Health Care—as a template for restructuring health care delivery around value. The process starts with providers and expands into strategies for health plans, employers, suppliers, and governmental entities. By exploring real-world implementations, you... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
the realism to let go of intrinsic survival mechanisms and the deep-seated faith to learn the new ones. Applying survival psychology to the current crisis may be extending the mandate of the discipline—the business leaders who are our... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Marketing - Faculty & Research
use information and make choices and how these choices affect the firm's strategy for new product development, customer relationship management, branding and other marketing efforts. We examine issues related to branding, business marketing, global marketing,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
experience life changes that also change the direction of their interests. Learn from mistakes. It’s not enough to grieve and reflect. Pivoting entrepreneurs need to apply the lessons they View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 27 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS
there were so many mixed emotions: the excitement of exploring a new country, meeting new people and learning new things, but also sadness for all that I would miss: my family, the food, and the warm familiarity of home. Would everything... View Details
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South Asia - Global
100 alumni attended the event, hosted by HBS Executive Education and the HBS Club of India in collaboration with the HBS India Research Center. March 2025 Event Doctoral workshop on Participant Centered Learning (DPCL) and the Case Method... View Details
- June 2017 (Revised May 2019)
- Supplement
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (B)
By: Doug J. Chung
Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain founded in 1988 by brothers Marcus, Mikael and Fredrik Dahnelius. The company operated 84 stores, all company-owned, located mainly in the metropolitan areas of Sweden’s most popular cities: Stockholm, Gothemburg... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden
Chung, Doug J. "Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 517-133, June 2017. (Revised May 2019.)
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MBA Experience - Health Care
providers, international health, venture capital, private equity, investment banking, and consulting. The Student-Alumni Mentor Program Matches students interested in health care with alumni who can provide direction on navigating the... View Details
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
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our office to learn more about our students and alumni or to develop a customized recruiting strategy. Name* Contact Email* Subject* Employer Name Select Industry Consulting Consumer Products Energy / Utilities Entertainment / Media... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
Working PapersSurviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2023
- Chapter
Marketing Through the Machine’s Eyes: Image Analytics and Interpretability
By: Shunyuan Zhang, Flora Feng and Kannan Srinivasan
he growth of social media and the sharing economy is generating abundant unstructured image and video data. Computer vision techniques can derive rich insights from unstructured data and can inform recommendations for increasing profits and consumer utility—if only the... View Details
Zhang, Shunyuan, Flora Feng, and Kannan Srinivasan. "Marketing Through the Machine’s Eyes: Image Analytics and Interpretability." Chap. 8 in Artificial Intelligence in Marketing. 20, edited by Naresh K. Malhotra, K. Sudhir, and Olivier Toubia, 217–238. Review of Marketing Research. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities
By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details
Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result
Scharfstein, David S., and Sergey Chernenko. "The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities." Working Paper, April 2023.
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
Toward this end, they obtained the rights to their own copyrights back from Island Records; they oversaw the vast majority of decisions about touring, record production, graphics, and packaging themselves; they focused on touring and a View Details
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HBS Fund - Alumni
quickly to harness the most promising new ideas and innovations. Choose Your Impact You can choose to support one of five key areas or let the School direct your gift wherever it is most needed. Business in Global Society Advance business... View Details